New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1915, Page 9

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1018. » o FRATERNAL NEWS | Stanley Rellef Corps. = Stanley Rellef Corps and friends [¥ill spend a social afternoon Wednes- lay, February 17th, in G. A. R. hall. Daughters of America. A flarzha ‘Washington Council, D. of . will hold a public Valentine whist [his evening in Jr. O. U. A. M. hall feeting will open early. Officers are uested to be there on time. . Giddings Chapter. | Giddings Chapter will confer the poyal arch degree on Thursday eve- ing, FFebruary 18th. . United Order of Golden Cross. #The regular meeting of U. O. G. C., W Britain Commandry, No. 880, will # held Tuesday evening, Feb. 16, in Svea Social club hall. The meet- will be opened promptly at § clock. There will be a box social af- pr the meeting. The boxes will be 1;§Pned at a limited price. i © Golden Cross visiting whist and 30 ial club met at the home of Mr. ild Mrs. Andrews recently. A pleas- w time was enjoyed by all. Prizes jpere won by Mrs. Andrews and Miss Beeves. The next whist will be held at lss Reeves. 3 Y. M. T. A. B. Society. ‘The membership of the Y. M. T. A B, society received a big boom yes- erday when fourteen candidates were tiated at a regular meeting of the Dpganizasion. In addition to this jwelve applications for membership 8re received. A committee consisting of John Kelly, Joseph B. Grace, Michael ¥iich, Harry Wilson and R. J. Mul- Ary was appointed to consider the d¥(sability of enlarging the society’s brery. It was decided that the excursion o Coney Island this year will be held n the first- Saturday in August. An invitation has been received by hé soclety to engage in a joint field lay with the Meriden “Tabs” and the matter is being considered by a com- e consisting of Peter McCrann, °, Twining, Charles Burns, James 'son, Joseph Stanton and Joseph povan. {The drama committee is warking a play to be presented in the Russ- Lyceum at the close of Lent. Unity Rebekah’s Masquerade. The committee in charge of the fuasquerade of Unity Rebekah lodge, I. O. O. F., has completed arrange- ments for the big affair which will be eld in O. U. A. M. hall on Hunger- ford court on Washington’s birthday, February 22, Special prizes will be jawarded. Luncheon will be served, The lodge will hold a Valentine vhist . Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 p'clock sharp in the same hall. = Alexandria Lodge. | Alexandria lodge, No. 24, 1. O. D. D George, held a very successful higg at the home of Mrs. Henry Blea of Kensington avenue last Cuesda¥ evening. The first prizes jpere won by Mrs, Lucy Elphick and Ph Mardon, and the second prizes by . May Wetherill and Mrs. Geroge R The regular business meet- the,order will be held Wednes- vening of this week in new Tur- all, Every member is requested W. L. Morgan Lodge. members of the lodge who are €rested in the good and welfare of ‘?rdf‘r are urged to attend the ifiess session of the lodge tomor- evening. e social committee will make a poft regarding gencral entertain- ent. After the close of the regular t"e&g the progressive ‘“Rummy un ' will hold a session. The drill yam will meet for rehearsal at the guiar time and place. "The sick #iting committee will meet with the fhairman immediately before the fezular session of the lodge. * Hira Temple. hle regular session of the temple n gxursday evening will be called to rde) be social committee may have proper ‘me ‘in which to prepare fthe lodge doni- for the reception of the whist rty which is scheduled to take place 8:15. , The committee desires to announce hat owing to several requests having | been, madé by friends who desire to pla’® pinochle,’ that a sufficient num- per D! tables will be designated for at purpose, and prizes for same vill be given accordingly. nrough the courtesy of the Russ- | four hox to n management icisels have lheen presented the emple to he vscd ot this party, and ol quence two will go to the suc- 4l lady for the whist and two in | r for the pinachle. regular session of the emdlc be held on Thursday, Prareh 18th, at which time it is ex- scted the spring ceremonial will take jace. mant The n Dau Martha ¥ vill mect this evening at 7:30 o'clock harp. Officers will please be on time. fter the raeeting there will be a pub- lic valentine whist, hters of America. Bar Kochba Clnb, . The annual election of the Bar Iiochba club, founded for Zionistic furgoses and composed of Jewish 2 fabout the city, was held yester- Lday . afternoon at the Talmud. Torah stifute on EIm street. The follow- ng cers were elected for the en- sning year: ~ Pregsident-—Martin Abrahamson. Vi€e President—Jacob Zietland. retary—Edward Rosenberg. Treasurer—S. Finkelstein, AR &xecutive committee was also clent for the year with Abraham ‘anteryitch as its president. NcW{Brl'aln Council, O. U. A, M, The meeting of New Britain coun- O.iU. A. M., this week will be | ments. | be in charge. romptly at 7:30, in order that | ashington council, D.of A, | called at 7:30 p. m. in one of the par- lors, as the main hall will be pre- pared for the Hartford County Ex- Councilors’ association banquet. committee in charge of this banquet report evervthing in readiness for the | occasion. A complete program with the list of speakers will be published later. Any member who has not se- sured his ticket should do so at once, as the number allotted to New Brit- ain has been entirely disposed of and the only ones left are those which may be returned from out of town councils, The New Britain members in charge | of this banquet are R. H. Wilcox, H. T. Sherman and F. F. Foster. Court Friendly, No, 45, F. of A. At the regular meeting of Court Friendly, No. 45 Foresters of America, which was held in Judd's hall last Thursday evening, three applications were received and six candidates were initiated. The new degree team made their first appearance and put on the work in a very creditable manner. The bazaar committee made a report of progress and a final report is ex- pected at the next meeting. The house committee made their first re- port for the clib, which has been open since January 1, and has proven tc be a success both socially and fi- nancially. The ‘45" tournament which is open to all Foresters in the city, is creating great enthusiasm and the committee is planning a set-back tournament to begin at the close of the ‘45" tournament. Foresters wish- ing to enter into any of these tourna- ments should give their names to the secretary, who will be at the rooms every evening. The whist com- mittee have completed all plans for their first grand whist of the season, ‘which will be held in Judd's hall on Thursday evening, February 25th. A fine asscrtment of prizes will be awarded to the winners, both ladles and gents. The whist will be a public one and tickets may be obtained from the committes or at the hall on Feb- ruary 25th. The house committee will ‘hold its regular weekly meeting on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. ‘Winthrop Council. Winthrop council, D. of L., will meet in O. U, A. M. hall Wednesday evening. The meeting will be called promptly at 8 o’clock so as to allow the O. U. A, M. banquet committee to arrange the hall for their banquet after the close of the meeting. . The membership committee will make a report of the progress made in se- curing one hundred new members, and the investigating committee will report on the several applications se- cured at the last meeting. On 'Tuesday evening, February 23, all members are invited to attend a union meeting to be held in Hart- ford. Stella Rebekah, No. 11, I. O. O, F. There will be a regular meeting of Stella Rebekah, No. 11, I. O. O. F., Friday evening, February 19, in Jr. O. TU. A. M. hall. Following the business meeting will be a social hour, enter- tainment and games for all. The Crescent Past Noble Grand’s associa- tion will meet with Stella lodge in the afternoon. There will be no meeting of the drill team this week. The | winners at the afternoon whist held on Friday at the home of Mrs. Eugene Kent were Mrs. Willis, Miss Dolan and Mrs. Lillilan Winger. Lady Wallace Lodge. Lady Wallace lodge, No. 24, D. O. S., held a regular meeting on Feb- ruary 10 with the new officers in charge. A committee was appointed to revise and amend the by-laws. It was voted to send $10 to the grand lodge to be forwarded to Great Brit- ain for the Prince of Wales Relief fund. C. W. B. Legion. i The Catholic Women’'s Benevolent legion will hold 'a regular meeting to- morrow evening at 8 o’clock in St. Mary’s school hall. A social will fol- low the business session. Whist will be played and there will be refresh- Mrs. Catherine Hyland will Phoenix Lodge, I. O. O. F. Phoenix, I. O. O. F. No. 52, meets Wednesday evening at Jr. O..U. A. M. hall on Hungerford court, at which time the secondary degree will be con- fered, and regular routine business carried out. Knights of the Golden Eagle. Erwin Castle, Knights of the Gold- en Eagle, will meet Wednesday eve- ning in Holmes < Hoffman’s hall at | 8 o’clock. Last Saturday several nagn from the local lodge went to Waterbury to at- tend the big class initiation there and a report on this event will be made Wednesday ¢évening. Amcrican Benef’t Society. The American Renefit society wi! meet Tuesday evening in Turner hall. Another round in the whist tourna- ment between the Bristol and New PBritain members w!ll be played after { the meeting. Foresters to Play Whist, Pride Circle, ILady Foresters of America, will hold a meeting this cvening at 7:30 o’clock. The meeting will be followed by a whist. Ladies’ Auxuliary, S, W, V., Mrs. Virgil Steele will entertain the Ladies’ Auxiliary, Spanish War Veterans and their friends Tuesday afternoon from 2 to 5 o’'clock in G. A. R. hall. Phoenix Temple of Honor, Phoenix Temple of Homor No. 19 will hold its regular meeting at O. U. A. M. hall, 277 Main street, Friday night. Business of importance will be brought up at the meeting. Woman’s Club. The Literature and Science De- partments of the Woman’s club will meet at 3 P. M. tomorrow at the home of Mrs, Elford Eddy. Papers by club | The | linists of ¥rance, who was club members concerning Brazil will be presented. Sunshine Society. The Sunshine society will meet Tuesday afternoon at the Y. W. C. A. Important matters are to come up and a large attendance ig desired. Leading Star Lodge, No. 23. A regular iaceting of Le:diag © lodge, No. 23, . 8. of V., will be held tomorrow evemng at 7:30 o’clock at Electric hall. A whist will follow. Auviliary No. 1. S. of V. A delightful supper and entertain- ment were provided by Auxiliary No. 1, Sons of Veterans, at Judd's Saturday night, it being the Lincoln supper. Mrs. Bryan gave several vocal selections and Miss Dor- othy Townsend and Mrs. Cora liddy gave recitations. Lady Turners. The Lady Turners of New Britain | the have accepted the invitation of Ladies’ auxiliary of the Hartford Tur- ners to attend the fools cap to be given Saturda February 20. Loyal Order of Moose. A sethack tournament will be start- ed at the club rooms of the Loyal Order of Moose Tuesday evening. Six prizes will be awarded, the first two consisting of six months dues, the second two of three months dues, and the third two of Moose pins. All en- tries must be.made by Tuesday even- ing. ’ A class initiation will be held at the meeting of the lodge Friday even- ing, when an exhibition of the em- blem made with pins and needles in the shape of pillow will be made. CHARITY EXPENSES REACH NEW RECORD Cost of Heiping Poor in January, This Year, Was $4,132. Not in the history of the consoli- dated city and town governments have unemployment and financial stringén- cy placed such a burden on New Britain through its charity depart- ment. This is shown by the accounting of the department for the month of Jan- uary, compared with the same month in other years. Not even in 1907 when the country was in the throes of a financial panic was the burden so- great. The total expenses of the charity department for last month were $4,- 132.456. This included the cost of the town home, assistance to deserving families, local and out of town hospi- tals, insane asylums, salaries, etc., and was §$2,23.88 more than in January, 1914, when the expenses amounted to $2,895.67. The expenses in 1907 were §2,111.72. Last month 280 fam- ilies were cared for, in comparison to 120 in 1907. Of course the growth of the city must be taken into consid- eration when comparisons are made. The town home last month cost §1,- 420.38 and the poor outside the town home $1,843.40. This winter has proved to be an extra strain on the city treasury due to the fact that so many heads of familiecs were out of work. Approx- imately $44,000 was appropriated to take care of the unemployed on street improvements and hundreds were giv- en work while the weather permitted out of door labor. This $44,000 was included in two appropriations, ex- tra taxes being levied. The entire amount was not expended and there ‘was & balance of $11,000, to which the board of finance and taxation gen- erously helped itself for other depart- ments that were flying distress sig- nals. i It is safe to say that the municipal- ity has never been so hard pressed through its charity department and January, 1916, will go down in history as a blue period in this respect. STRINGS OF VIOLIN TOLD DEATH NEWS Wifc of French Sergeant Learned of Husband’s Death Before Official Notification Arrived. Paris, Feb. 15, (Correspondence of the Associated Press)-—This story is going the rounds of the French pa- pers: One of the most distinguished vio- married only one month before the beginning of the war, said to his bride on leaving for the front that if any misfortune happened to him, he would arrange to let her know it in advance of the of- | ficial notification. Weeks and months went by, with- out any bad news, and the bride al- most had forgotten the singular state- ment made by her husband in the emotion of separation when on Sun- day morning, January 24, she felt an irresistible desire to play a certain melody that her husband Remi was particularly fond of. She opened the case, took out the violin and all color left her cheeks. Two of the strings were broken, the ‘“ri” and the ‘“mi.” “I understand” she stammered and staggered to a chair. The following day toward noon an official from the war department came to inform her that the Sergeant Remi had died upon the field of honor. FALL PROVES FATAL. Fairfield, Feb. 15.—Mrs. Mary ¥. Lacey died at the Laccy homestead on Stratfield road today following a re- cent fall in which she broke her hip. Mrs. Lacey celcbratel her ninety- ninth birthday on Feb. 5. A nephew, Alva Meeker of Newtown and niece, ers. Homer Sturges of this place, sur- vive. dance | GERMANY WILLING T0 ' CONSIDER RECEDING - FROM WAR DECREE (Continued from First Page.) decree is so gocs close into at effect, 18, hand. February hall | arnual | German Official Berlin, Feb. 15 by graph to Sayville, N. Y fice issued the following s da South of Ypres, near St. Eloy, | Germans took about 900 metres of the enemy’s positions. Counter were without suce “Equally unsucce my's attack in the of LaBassece. Several dozens of pri- | soners were taken by the Germans. “An advanced trench which Germans lost on February 2 near Sudelkopf was taken back The Germans drove the enemy out of Sen- zern, in the Lauch Valley (Alsace). Rempach was evacuated by the en- emy. Germans Advancing Everywhere. Report. Wireless Tele- ~The war ful was the ene- “North of Tilsit (East Pru the enemy was driven out of en and pushed in the Tauroggen. On both sides frontier, in the castern lake engagements are in progress with the retreating enemy. German troops are advancing rapidly everywhere. ““‘German detachments marched on the Kolno district against the enemy, advancing beyond Lomza. ia) direction district, Germans Occupy Raciowz “In the Vistula district the Germans gained further ground and occupied Raciowz. “In previuos engagements, besides a number of prisoners, six guns were taken. “In Poland, on the left of the Vis- tula, thera were mno important changes.” French Official Report. Paris, TFeb. 15, French war office this afternoon gave out a report on the progress of the war, which reads as follows: " “In Belgium yesterday the German bombardment of trenches was uninter- rupted. From ‘the great dune our heavy' artillery inflicted damage on the mortars of the enemy. We oc- cupied for a distance of about 250 yards a German trench along the roadway from Bethune to I.a Basse. “Yesterday saw very spirited artil- lery exchanges in the vicinity of I.ens, around Albert, between Avre and the Oise, in the suburbs of Soissons, and at Verneuil, northeast of Vailly. § German Attack Repulsed. “In the Argonne, in the direction of Bagatelle and Marie Therese, the fighting still continues with energy been no movements of infantry. ‘“Between the Argonne and the Meuse an attmpt at attack by the German forc at a point between the village of Malancourt and the forest of the same name was promptly re- pulsed. Germans Occupy Norroy. “In Lorraine the enemy, after hav- ing driven back our advance guard, succeeded in occupying Signal Hill and the village of Norroy. A counter attack on our part drove the Germans back as far as the northern declivity of Signal Hill, where they are still holding their positions in some trenches. “In the Vosges the German offen- sive movement which began along the two banks of the River Lauch was not pursued yesterday on the south bank. The enemy only bombarded our positions on the north bank of this stream. The Gefmans are be- ing held in chéck by us in front of our advanced line at Langenfeldkopf, in the Forest of Rempach. French troops on skiis have executed a very briliant counter attack against the German positions on the sides of the mountain at this point. Yesterday afternoon a very heavy snowstorm blew over this locality,” Czar Returns From Front. Petrograd, Feb. 15.—Emperor Nich- olas today returned to Tsarskoe-Zelo from a visit to the Russian army headquarters at the front. Austrians Bombard Antivari, Cettinje, Montenegro, via London, Feb. 15, 10:45 a, m.—The Austrian fleet on Sunday morning made a sortie from the Gulf of Cattaro and began the bombardment of the port of Antivari, Montenegro. Royal Family in Danger. Cettinje, Montenegro, Feb. 15, via London, 12:15 p. m.—The members of the royal family of Montenegro were subjected yesterday, in their residence at Rieka, to machine gun fire from two Austrian aeroplanes. Rieka is a village near Lake Scu- tari, where the royal family passes the winter, King Nicholas, the queen and the princesses watched the aerial invaders from their palace windows. Several of the bullets fired from the aeroplanes fell near them. TROUSERS CUT AT MOVIES. | Fred Marian pericnce Watching Silent Drama. Has Embarrassing Ex- 77 Clark street at Fred Marian of No. had an embarrassing experience Fox’s theater last night while watch- ing the silent drama. When he reached home he found that in some mysterious manner his trousers had been cut as with a keen knife. Mr. Marian reported the affair to the police, but could oger no sugges- tion for the solution of the mystery of- | atement to- ' the | FREDERIC MORS, WHO CONFESSED HE KILLED | AEROPLANES FAL 10 EIGHT, UNBALANCED | APPEAR A'I’ MIAWA \5 | Brockvi ¢ Residents Claim They Saw | Deciarcs Engle Reply from attacks | Piktupoen- | of | of -the | 2:43 P." M.—The | from trench to trench, but there have | district southwest | the | | them. FREDERIC 110RS Fellows’ home at Yonkers, mates will on trial. servation at Bellevue hospital for week it was reported that he “mentally unwell.” probably we and he said that he He liked to see them die. vestigation has shown that | the deaths were very strange. MEMORIAL SERVICES out Country Today. New York, Feb. 15.—Survivors the bhattleship Maine, retired, commander, and the P. Chidwick, when she was blown up, will ish War Veterans. Rear Admiral Sigsbee and brew Orphan asylum. Services at Washington. Washington, Feb. ship Maine were held National cemetery in today. The principal speakers were Cuban minister, Carlos Manuel California. Wilson and Presidents Menocal mast., Unveil Stone Tablets. Pittsburg, Feb. 15 anniversary of the day time ago. One of the tablets life when the ship sank. tablet was dedicated to the in the Spanish-American war. tives of many local military zations participated in the nies. STARTS BLAZE WITH CIGAR. lowing Collision of Motor Trucks, Hartford, Feb. 15.—Following the collision of an oil tank motor truck and an electric truck on Pleasant street hill today somebody threw lighted cigar into the stream gasoline flowing down the gutter and started a conflagration that did much damage and presented a darngerous situation for a time. Flames leaped twenty to thirty feet in the air, paint and in some cases the flery found its way into cellars, The police are looking for the man | who started the blaze with his cigar, EXPELLED FROM JAPAN, Four Germans and One Englishman for Disturbing Peace and Order. Yokohama, Japan, Feb. 15, 9:30 p, m.—The Japanese authorities have ordered the expulsion from Japan of four Germans and one Englishman, who have been found guilty of actions disturbing peace and order. Th(? authorities have decided upon a stricter surveillance of Germans and Austrians in the country. New York, Feb. 15.—TFrederic Mors, the former porter gf the German Odd | who con- fessed that he murdered eight aged in- never be placed After he had been under ob- s Mors claimed he was responsible for the many sudden deaths of the old people in the home, chloroformed In- many of FOR MAINE HEROES Celebratedin Several Giiss Through of which was de- stroyed in Hanana harbor on Feb. 15, 1898, including Rear Admiral Sigsbee, Rev. J. chaplain of the Maine be the | principal speakers tonight at the an- | nual memorial services of the Colonel John Jacob Astor camp, United Span- other survivors yesterday placed the bronze memorial tablet given to the Hebrew | Yeterans of the Spanish American war by the United States government sev- eral years ago in the care of the He- 15.—~Memorial services for the dead of the battle- Arlington Patriotic organizations and United States troops, marines and bluejackets participated. the De- Cespedes, and Representative Kahn of A feature was the plac- ling of floral tributes from President | of Cuba on the Maine anchor and main- The seventeenth nking of the bat- tleship Maine was celebrated here to- by the unveiling of three stone tablets placed at the base of the Maine monument which was dedicated some was erected in honor of Lieutenant Friend W. Jenkins of Pittsburgy who was the only commissioned officer to lose his Another dead members of the crew af the Maine, while the third was in honor of the soldlers and sailors who participated Mayor Armstrong and representa- organi- ceremo. rious Conflagration in Hartford Fol- a of on houses was scorched and windows | were broken for hundreds of vards, | stream | Macines Cross St. Lawrence. Ottawa, Feb, After an all-night | watch for the air visitors, in three or " St. L ¥ Yo ] ball they four aeroplanes; who were reported the N crossed Morristown, to have river at have dropped passed over Brockville officials of the were of the opinjon today 1eport was unfounded The chief of police of Ogdenshurg N. Y., twelve miles down the St Lawrence river from RBrockville had heard nothing the passage of the | aeroplaen over Brockville of consequent excitement incident there- | to. He said that on Friday | last a farmer living five miles from Ogdensburg had reported the of an aeroplane over his form 2 ling in the direction of the Canadian | border. on. { ¢ last | a fire as the Dominion government | that police the | however Shut After receiving the right, Premier Borden notified Cofonel | commissioner of the police, and the lights | parliament building, the | Royal mint and the residence of the| governor general were | ordered extinguished | first time in Its history { has been darkened, from the Dominion tioned on Parliament Hill and goards f< were held in readiness to repel an aerfal attack should one be attempted. | The Duke of Connaught, governor | general of Canada is on an inspection trip to Winnipeg, but the Duchess and the Princess Patricia are in the capital and were informed of the precautions tzken to guard the city, Residents Saw Acroplanes. Residents of Brockville refuse accept the statements made by young men of Morristown, N. Y., that = bal- | loons sent up by them last night were | responsible for the report that aero- | planes had crossed the border at that | point and were headed toward Otta- wa. The Canadian Press today re- | ceived despatches to the effect that responsible residents claimed they | saw the aeroplanes cross the St. Law- rence from the United States last night and that they also saw them homeward bound at 1:30 A. M., to- day. The incident, it was said by the Dominion police, would be reported to the state department at Washing- ton. Various persons told the police that the first of the machines approached Brockville at 8:10 o'clock last night | ¢ and that the second followed in the same path about twenty minutes lat- er. Both were sald to have disap- peared in the direction of Ottawa, The report was telegraphed here and lights in and around the parliament buildings and the government house were extinguished. Both the ma- chines were described as carryving searchlights which were directed upon the ground over which they were fly- ing. A daughter of Edward Bill- ings, a farmer, living near Brockville said one of the aeroplanes flew fifty feet above her. Both machines went over Brockville, the police assert, on their way back to the United States Persons living in Bellamy, a village on the Canadian Pacific railway, north of Brockville, saw flashes in the sky they | thought were lightning, the police say. | The roport that a fire ball The report that a firc dropped on Drockville w there today Lights report Sharwood, Deminion iround the f the |V t This was that the mint | Sharpshooter: police were sta- (1 t . F was dropp ball was denied | Sent - Up Balloons, Ogdensburg, N, Y., Feb, 15 men living in Morristown, on Americah side of the line, oppogite Brockville, that shortly after 9 o’clock they ment up three fire balloons of which exploded high “in the over Brockville. Reports here today from Morrigtown were to the effect that it was believed there that these balloons were mistaken for | | aroplanes by persons living across the line. . 1,502 DEATHS IN STATI. Young the | international |, today | o night each cald last air v t reaching o During January ity According to Mortal- Reports, b Feb. 15.~—~Therc Connecticut | I Hartford, were 1,502 January, deaths in durng | according ports received by the health and inciaded in the 1vonthly bulletin, issued today. This number was 29 less than in December, 169 less than in anuary of last year, | at and 127 less than the average number | 1 of deaths during January for the live years preceding. The death rate expressed as an an- nual rate per thousand of cstimated population was 14.4 for the larg towns 15.0 and for the whole state, in cluding state institutions 15.0. Deaths | from infectious ciseases were 188, be ing 12.5 per cent. of the total mortul ity. to mortality re state board of ne ta st at DAMAGED BY MINE. | o h | British Steamer Wavelet Strikes Ex- | plosive in Channel. The tons, Jan London, Feb. 15, 2:26 p. m British steamer Wavelet, 1,918 Capt. Cole, from Pensacola, Fla. 15 via Newport News, Jan. 23, for Leith, Scotland, encountered a mine in the British Channel and was badly damaged. The skipper, by prompt action, succeeded in beaching lis steamer near Deal A small boat from the Wavelet carrying the first officer and a num- ber of the crew left the ship when it appeared as If she would foundor. The boat was capsized in the heavy seas and all the men in it were drowncd. ol to reply the hat tant | «hene | firty day Londe orts brort ish n ecople The | Americ exted ce in ken 1« probably the erman which 1 lared a Gr ance « hé bes American ime, 1¥ rarines searc ore Note The irtual cmpt te fon an Great F & the An ir garding more hing the fact into British ports wi lung hing fact that at out n, Feb. 15, threatencd submari of the British, e tople WEDEPETS judgin fro y in equally Ju n ambassad i castern n 1 madce American here meet » mean will nos o Ll comment 1as arisen war zone that " W ! prevent the use of Britain & declara suarantee shipping. e Gormank cannot be of hostile destroying the Virtual English pre jmmediately | garding the note to) ultimatum, to forecast ) the Washin regarding the flag, but it do 3ritain cannof right to use case of necessitiy \dication tha the Germa than a that liners and W visioned Wilhelmina's Ca No di e omt g foreign | bassador. { Unus Arc Belgium, sults is lacking, Germans East still advancing exce In cargo Wilhelmina secms to sposition yet of the This be unde vardianship office and ually heavy # | cording to reports proceeding at t but defin Sull Prussia e Russians are th he rel sides claim Carpathians, while V Austrians are Bukowina ere center of the long quiet prevails, acel mn.ation of London, the COULD LEVE ative positiol N THIR German Guns Less: metres Distant, § New fortn kilomctres distant level minutes, a walt of this eity, wh Rochambeau ould he the Yance, district Feb, 2 American ctvilf the Lomt niy isit he 1 wvis theims, velr e peet 1 ion yuch f the con sk ullding Fren the Ie cre ind | mans should intery was there, attempt at It sec 1 the cl ar and r der i ing a reets Pe The yout 15 feet at are H Willia and entire York ignt Ieb. ago wel n the ciy cording © 1 to wine-growl which emb Mr. Ringwi and 3 and \ city iment the gre Ning’ prie was «inee Mr with the urtesy 1 ha i first stained glas ©attered and i« littered No Steady ch oflicials German than thi that the thin half an bom ba als in the cf althon steady sl med as if t tizens to knd 1 to discoura monstrations, lled four me cart of wil it not repor e Ldving Ul pop! 000 perso undergrou very’ bomb AMES BEGH m Hames, th cd patrol driver, be; morning. a trial spin and h shape ®oon be appointed a ficer He took It s expect MRS, MeCLELLA Paris, at t ty, The Peb, 11 15, funeral of Mrs, El lan, widow of M B. MeClellan, pneumonia who will be American body will iy he ton, N, J,